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OUACHITA TRAIL 3/10-11/17

Arriving at Chuck's house to load up...	Our first shuttle stop at Hwy. 27
Our second shuttle stop on Hwy. 298	Our third shuttle stop at Hwy. 7
	This is where we will begin our hike....
The Three Amigos hit the Ouachita Trail	OT
	Mile 160 ( We  will be hiking the route "backwards")
Moonshine Shelter to the right.....
Mile 159	Not stopping here, we have a long ways to go (Chuck and Tony)
Danny and Tony	Mile 158
Crossing over our first bridge	Mile 157
	What a beautiful day.....
	Since I am the camera person...a lot of selfies
Mile 156	Water break
My rig (Danny)
	Heading up the rocky steep part
Mile 155	Almost half way to our shelter
	Mile 154
Another rest stop (it was perfect weather on Friday)	Mile 153
	Following an old road
Mile 152	I can't believe the trail builders moved all these rocks!
Mile 151	Our shelter just ahead
That is Big Bear Shelter on the creek	Arriving at our sleeping headquarters
Tony got here and now he has leg cramps
Big Bear Shelter along the creek	The Three Amigos at Big Bear Shelter
Tony's pain has put him in bed.....	Chuck hung his hammock inside the shelter (Rain tonight)
Our creek and a foot bridge down the way.....	A fire, supper, dark and off to sleep.....
Our table....for breakfast	It was kind of miserable sleeping, cold windy and now the forecast is rain, rain, rain.....
It was going to be 12-miles to Tony's truck on Hwy. 298... It was beginning to rain....so we decided to head back the way we came	It would turn out to be a wise decision..... We did get rained on, on the way back, but when we finished the bottom fell out of the sky and it was turning very cold.
Our rain gear......
	Not pretty, but it kept the rain out....
The trail was lined with this kind of moss....nice!	It quit raining long enough to stop, rest and drink
One more selfie
	The rainsuit was nice and kept the rain off... however, it was the "sweat" that got me wet!
	We made it back.....
We arrived back at the trailhead at Hwy. 7.... Instead of doing 40 miles in three days, we did 20 miles in two days......	The OT was fun...wish the weather would have been fun....!!!!! At least it was nice on Friday.....we will return and finish?

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